Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 609
"This is your favorite dumpling. It's stuffed with scallions, pork, and meat. There's a lot of meat. My cousin and I made it ourselves. You should eat more."

Li Jingjing said heartily: It turns out that my father-in-law and mother-in-law are making dumplings in the afternoon.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, who would have thought that the majestic prince and concubine would personally make dumplings for ancestor worship.

After the simple ancestor worship ceremony, He Qing and his wife had eight plates of steaming dumplings brought to the dining room to eat while they were hot.

There were few people in Prince Qing's Mansion, so the New Year's Eve dinner dishes were not as many as those in Prince Li's Mansion. He Qing and Kong Ye were considerate of Li Jingjing, and specially asked the cook to cook six Hunan dishes with peppers.

After the New Year's Eve dinner is the New Year's Eve.He Jingxin and He Jingmiao ate too much, so they went for a walk in the yard to digest their food, and then set off cannons.

He Jingyan and Li Jingjing sat with He Qing and his wife in the hall of the main courtyard and talked over tea.

Compared to the bustle of the Li family, Prince Qing's Mansion is much quieter.

Li Jingjing thought that after the New Year, Prince Qing's Mansion would have more people, there would be children in the future, and it would be as lively as her mother's house in a few years.

Suddenly, the door slave ran in excitedly and reported, "The Prince Xiao, Mr. He, Mr. Yunfei, and General Li Guanjun from Prince Li's mansion have come, and they have brought more than a dozen baskets of fireworks from Tanzhou, saying they are here to set off for the princess." fireworks."

The sons and grandchildren of the Li family were either princes or military officers, and even Li Wen and Li Wu, who could not speak, had official positions, and they had to be respected wherever they went.

Li Jingjing was delighted, and said to He Jingyan with a smile: "Today, they never told me they would come over until lunch."

"This is a surprise for you." He Jingyan rushed to greet him, invited Li Yunxiao, He Jiye, Li Yunfei, and Li Kun into the hall, and said, "Lady, let's go outside to set off fireworks."

He Qing and Kong Ye stopped them from going out, let them have hot tea first, then asked the servants to fetch the red envelopes, and gave two to each of the four.

He Qing smiled and said: "There is not much money for the New Year's Eve, it's just a little thought from me and your aunt."

The three little fellows bowed and smiled and said, "Thank you uncle and aunt." "Thank you grandpa and grandma."

Li Yunxiao is an adult and has an official status, and he still has to pay for the new year's money. He rubbed his head, feeling a little embarrassed.

Kong Ye said: "Before we got married, we were all young men."

He Jingxin and He Jingmiao heard the news and went through all the fireworks brought by Li's family. They were pleasantly surprised: "There are a lot of fireworks that I haven't let off before." "There are so many fireworks that can be set off for an hour."

Li Jingjing said proudly: "The weather is good tonight, let the fireworks of Tanzhou bloom brilliantly in the night sky of Chang'an!"

Therefore, the fireworks at Prince Qing's Mansion this night became a highlight of the night view of Chang'an City Mansion. Many children still remember it many years later, and this is a free publicity for the fireworks in Tanzhou.

On the first day of the first lunar month, He Qing's family changed into court clothes and went to the palace in two carriages.

At the same time, except for the twins and three babies, the rest of the Li family entered the palace to attend the state banquet.

At the third quarter of the hour, He Dong led all the civil and military officials of the third rank and above to start offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, and then went to the main hall of Xuanzheng Palace to meet with all the imperial wives.

The first imperial decree this year was the matter that He Dong and Li Bing had discussed a few days ago about the feudal king getting 20 years of income from the fiefdom.

This is undoubtedly a big surprise for He Jingyan and Li Jingjing.

He Rong and He Jinghai have managed the fiefdom for three years, and put 10,000+ taels of silver into it every year. In this way, more than 1000 people died of freezing and starving in winter. The population is sparse, the business is not prosperous, and various taxes are low. For seven years, there will be no tax surplus.

For He Rong and He Jinghai, this imperial decree will not benefit them, but can only be regarded as psychological comfort.

The second imperial decree is to add a general examination in Chang'an this autumn, giving the candidates of this dynasty the opportunity to pass the Jinshi examination.

He Dong canonized Di Yujie as Minister of Rites to preside over this scientific examination.

Di Yumin was a candidate for the scientific examination last autumn, and Di Yujie did not participate in all matters related to the scientific examination according to the evasion.

Di Yujie used to be the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, but since today he has removed the word Dai, and has become a full-time official of the third rank, formally entering the senior official class of the Ding Dynasty.

In the opening of the dynasty, the emperor once used a son-in-law and made him a marshal, and then the son-in-law plotted against him and almost killed the emperor. Therefore, there was an unwritten rule in the royal family that the son-in-law could not be reused.

The founding emperor of the Ding dynasty, He Dong, had long wanted to reuse his son-in-law Di Yujie, fearing that he would be opposed by civil and military officials, so he raised his official position step by step, and today he was finally given the important real position of Minister of Rites.

The third imperial decree is to exchange the governors who have served for more than five years.

The fourth imperial decree is to appoint He Wu, son-in-law of King Rong, and Qin Minye, son-in-law, as inspectors, and to give Qin Minye a sword of Shangfang. For corrupt officials, as long as the evidence is solid, they can be killed first and then acted cheaply.

He Wu knelt down on the spot to thank En and swore to live up to the emperor's order.

Qin Minye is just a small county magistrate, but as Cong Yipin's son-in-law, he is eligible to attend the state banquet today, but he is presiding over official duties in the county and has not returned to Chang'an on the [-]th, so he is not present.

When his grandfather Qin Xionghuang heard the imperial decree, his bull's eyes widened with excitement, and when he heard Liang Guogong's reminder in a low voice, he was so happy that he knelt down and kowtowed: "On behalf of grandson Qin Minye, I would like to thank Your Majesty for entrusting this important task."

The fourth princess He Jingdan looked at He Yiyun and He Pan with deep jealousy.

He Jingdan's son-in-law is still only a seventh-rank official under Chang'an Changshi. He has no real power at all, and his salary is not enough to go to restaurants with his colleagues.

Although the son-in-law loves her very much and her in-laws respect her very much, they can't give her any money.She felt that she was raising a brat.

After the state banquet was over, He Jingdan held back his anger and followed Fifth Princess He Jinglian to Concubine Hu Xian's palace.

He Jinglian looked at He Jingdan's pale complexion, even rouge could not hide his haggard look, and asked, "Fourth Sister's complexion is so bad, but she is pregnant and tired?"

He Jingdan said coldly: "I won't give him a child!"

She was so angry with the fourth son-in-law that the amount of water in the sunflower increased, and her stomach was hurt by taking soup and medicine for conditioning, and it was difficult to conceive within half a year.

He Jinglian smiled like a flower, and said: "You hate the fourth brother-in-law so much, what are you doing with him, just make up with him quickly."

He Jingdan took a breath, shook his head and said, "I don't have a better life than you. You have your mother to protect you."

Concubine Hu Xian received He Jinglian's wink, and immediately raised her eyebrows and said: "Although your biological mother Ouyang is gone, there is still your father. You can go and tell him about reconciling with the son-in-law."

When Concubine Ouyang De was alive, relying on her background in the Ouyang family, she was domineering and domineering, and she didn't pay attention to Concubine Hu Xian who was born to a brothel girl but was ranked above her as a concubine.

(End of this chapter)